A majority of Americans trust that elections are fair, are confident in their state and local governments’ ability to administer elections, and will trust the results in 2022 and in 2024 regardless of whether their preferred candidate wins, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds.
The survey also found that most Americans feel that former President Donald Trump has continued to say the 2020 election was rigged mostly because he didn’t like the outcome.
But those results are largely because of Democrats and independents. Many Republicans appear to have bought into Trump’s lies about nonexistent widespread fraud in an election he lost. CONTINUED
Domenico Montanaro, NPR News
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